A Bit of This and That Blog

In approximately one month, the ashes of the late James Doohan, the actor who played Scotty (Montegomery Scott) on Star Trek will be sent into space!
Houston-based commercial company Space Services Inc. said some of Doohan’s remains were packed into a rocket at Las Cruces, New Mexico, on Friday, ahead of the flight scheduled for April 28.
Space [...]

My girlfriend’s daughter and family are re-locating to a different state for a new job that her husband was offered. I’m all for taking that big step and completely changing one’s scenery and starting fresh in a new place. But there are so many things to do to prepare!
We helped them research information on what [...]

I have noticed there are a lot of blogs that are in other languages. Many of them are in French. The only way I can read them is to use Babel Fish translator on AltaVista. So, in return, I am adding the translator program on my websites to make it easy to translate for those [...]

Gas prices in Southern California have skyrocketed! The average is about $3.05 a gallon for the lower end octane gas. There are some exceptions, but even those are barely below the $3.00 mark, and it’s going to get worse before the summer.
My mom lives in Las Vegas, and she said the most recent time they [...]

So we have had our cockatiel for almost a year now and she has definitely grown!
She also loves to be out of her cage and fly around the house and eventually hang out with us. It’s interesting how she went from scared being in a new place to making it a point to come hang [...]

One thing I am learning as I grow older…I need more sleep! What’s up with that?
I used to be able to survive off of 3 or 4 hours of sleep. Now, if I don’t get at least 7, I am a zombie. In the work that I do, I sit behind a desk for a [...]